Earth:
Hitomi is sleeping in her bed. It is a gentle spring night in Tokyo;
suddenly her pleasant dream turns to a nightmare. Hitomi looks outward seeing a streak cross the sky, the streak of
a comet. She sees the land far beneath
her and feels the night air rushing past. Suddenly the countryside below erupts in blue/green flame. The flame swallows everything, darkness
surrounds Hitomi. Next she sees
herself kneeling silently awaiting someone. A shrouded swordsman appears raising his sword and plunging it toward
Hitomi. Clutching her chest, she sits up in bed, holding back a
scream. Tears burn her eyes.
Hitomi "This was not a vision, I just had a
bad dream"
She runs a nervous hand through her long
hair. Opens her bedside table drawer
she removes a delicate white feather and caresses it across her cheek. Even with the passing of three years
Hitomi's love for the far away Van is still as strong as the day she left
Gaea. With a small sigh she
thinks, "If dreams really do come true
we will be together again." Holding
the feather close she drifts back to sleep.
On the train to school Yukari and Hitomi are
excitedly talking about graduation and the future, mostly Yukari's future.
Yukari: "Amano is coming home and I think he's going to propose. I thought he would wait till after
graduation, but he has seemed so restless lately."
Hitomi: "Restless how: I though he was
on the honor roll at University."
Yukari: " He is. It's honor that is bothering him. He thinks that life today doesn't have any. He's done so well in history and he's tops
on the fencing team. Now he wants to
learn the ancient art of swordsmanship, can you believe it? He calls it the "noble way of the warrior."
Hitomi: " I see"
What Hitomi thinks of though is the first
time she saw young Van at the castle in Fanilia taking instruction from Balgus.
(Van removes the sword from the sheath at
his side and in ceremonial fashion arches it down from his side to the
floor. With a turn of his wrist he
changes the angle of the blade then raises it over his head. Letting out a primitive cry of death, he
charges the unmoving Balgus. Balgus
easily deflects the blow " Your
not charging aggressively enough Lord ")
Yukari: " Hitomi, are you listening? You know I blame you for this I know Amano
longs for the kind of adventures that you told us about on Gaea. Say are you still planning to come to see
the comet with us tomorrow night aren't you."
Hitomi: " The comet, I'd almost forgotten
(she pauses) I had another of those dreams last night, but it was clearer and I
remember more of it."
Yukari: "Uh?" (Eyes wide and brows raised she isn't sure if Hatomi was talking
to her or if that statement was aimed at Hatomi herself.) " Tell me about the
dream, you know what they say-if you share your dream experience it no longer
has any power over you."
Hitomi: " Yukari, it was just a dream not a
vision!"
Yukari: " Still it couldn't hurt."
Hitomi: " Most of it is still somewhere back
in my mind where I just can't seem to reach it, but I do remember the comet and
being high in the sky as if I were flying."
Yukari: " That was a bad dream?"
Hitomi: " Let me finish will you. It felt bad as if there was a power
there. The power of destruction and I
think someone was going to kill me."
The train pulls into the station, ending any
further conversation as the girls leave and head off to school.
